portfolio
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Portfolio is partly based on the Latin folium, meaning "leaf, sheet". A portfolio usually represents a portable showcase of your talents. Today actual portfolios are used less than they used to be by artists, since most commercial artists have a website dedicated to showing off their art. But portfolio in its other common meaning is extremely common. Not so long ago, a broker would keep each of his or her clients' investments in a separate notebook or portfolio. Today the investment portfolio, like an artist's portfolio, usually takes the form of a Web page, even though everyone still uses the same old word.
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Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Should détente with Russia, U.S. efforts to rebalance its portfolios with allies, and the use of diplomacy in the Middle East pay off, Washington will enjoy an even stronger position vis-à-vis Beijing.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust’s portfolio.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Sponsors must now re-underwrite portfolios and exit timelines.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Portfolio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portfolio. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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